DeepSeek for iOS has surpassed Openai’s Chatgpt, ranking first in the U.S. “Top Free Apps” chart. The Chinese company of the same name released the open source DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence (AI) model last week, which outperforms OpenAI’s O1 AI model on several benchmarks. The press release has brought the company and its AI Chatbot The Town The Talk the The The The The The The The Balley Tech leader to react to its sudden rise. It is worth noting that the DeepSeek app is completely free to use, and the subscription tier has not been announced so far.
DeepSeek surpasses Chatgpt
Since Openai launched CHATGPT for iOS app in May 2023, it has been one of the most important free apps on the App Store and remains the highest ranked AI app on the platform. However, the throne was recently taken to the top of the chart by the DeepSeek app. The rise is attributed to the recent launch of the DeepSeek-R1 AI model.
It is worth noting that little is known about the Hangzhou-based AI company founded in 2023 and the issuance of several open source large language models (LLMS). While the U.S.-based tech company has also released open source models, and in the community, Meta is noteworthy, none of them are close to the capabilities and scale that the DeepSeek model offers. The company also claims that the cost of building the model is $6 million (approximately Rs 518 crore), which is much cheaper than the AI model of that size.
Several Silicon Valley-based technology leaders responded to the sudden rise of these models. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen calls the R1 AI model “one of the most amazing and impressive breakthroughs I’ve ever seen”, while Confused AI co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas congratulates Chinese companies Be the first AI application to beat Chatgpt.
In a LinkedIn post, Yann Lecun, one of the godfathers of AI, now vice president and chief AI scientist, said: “Open source models are surpassing proprietary models.” Holger Zschäpitz, senior financial reporter for German free television news channel Welt, believes that DeepSeek “may be right for the sake of the The U.S. stock market poses a huge threat.”
DeepSeek is not the only one
Although DeepSeek breaks the open source trend of the company’s open AI model while keeping the Frontier model under a proprietary paywall, this is not the only one. Another Chinese company, Kimi AI, announced the release of the Kimi K1.5 AI model. The company claims this is “a multi-mode LLM at the O1 level that outperforms the GPT-4O and Claude Sonnet 3.5 on several benchmarks.”
It is worth noting that Kimi AI has made the web version of its chatbot completely free to use, similar to DeepSeek. The AI model can also perform real-time web searches, analyze up to 50 files in multiple formats, and has image understanding capabilities. Although its technical reports are available on GitHub, open source is not available yet.
